ronde
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,097
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ronde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Surveillance ; tour de garde. Pronounced \ʁɔ̃d\. It ranks #4,097 in French word frequency. Often confused with rose and rude.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ronde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ronde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,097 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ronde, with forms such as "ornde", "rnode", and "rodne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rose", "rude", "rote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ronde, spelled R-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surveillance ; tour de garde.
- 2Symbole de solfège, de forme circulaire, indiquant une note de 4 temps. Une ronde vaut deux blanches ou quatre noires.
- 3Femme dont la silhouette a des formes généreuses.
- 4Mouvement de danse traditionnelle ou enfantine qui se présente sous forme de cercle.
- 5Manège, succession, défilé, procession.
- 6Caractère d'imprimerie dont les lettres ont des jambages courbes, des panses et des boucles arrondies.
- 7Dans une compétition, ensemble des parties ou des matchs qui se jouent simultanément.
- 8Groupe de jeannettes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ornde,rnode,rodne,rondde,roned,ronnde,rronde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ronde
Misspelling Variants of "ronde"
Frequency rank: #4,097 in French
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Nearby French words
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